Teaching about reproduction, politics, and social justice

Author(s): Price, K.
Date: 2008
Publication: Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
Citation: Price, K. (2008). Teaching about reproduction, politics, and social justice. Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, 19(2), 42–54. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43505850
Section on webpage: Reproductive Rights and Justice Literature
Tenets: Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches.
Annotation: In this essay, Price describes the development of a course that addresses the human rights and social justice aspects of reproduction in order for students to understand how social, political, and economic institutions and processes, and intersecting oppressions and privileges can affect the reproductive choices of individual women and entire communities, zooming out from the narrow concept of individual choice, which dominates discussions of reproductive rights in the United States. She discusses the theoretical foundations of reproductive justice and offers some strategies for its incorporation into courses on the politics of reproduction.

 

Reproductive justice as intersectional feminist activism

Author(s): Ross, L. J.
Date: 2017
Publication: Souls
Citation: Ross, L. J. (2017). Reproductive justice as intersectional feminist activism. Souls, 19(3), 286–314. https://doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2017.1389634
Section on webpage: Reproductive Rights and Justice Literature
Tenets: Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches.
Annotation: (Abstract) Reproductive justice activists have dynamically used the concept of intersectionality as a source of empowerment to propel one of the most important shifts in reproductive politics in recent history. In the tradition of the Combahee River Collective, twelve Black women working within and outside the pro-choice movement in 1994 coined the term “reproductive justice” to “recognize the commonality of our experiences and, from the sharing and growing consciousness, to a politics that will change our lives and inevitably end our oppression.” Its popularity necessitates an examination of whether reproductive justice is sturdy enough to be analyzed as a novel critical feminist theory and a surprising success story of praxis through intersectionality. Offered to the intellectual commons of inquiry, reproductive justice has impressively built bridges between activists and the academy to stimulate thousands of scholarly articles, generate new women of color organizations, and prompt the reorganization of philanthropic foundations. This article defines reproductive justice, examines its use as an organizing and theoretical framework, and discusses Black patriarchal and feminist theoretical discourses through a reproductive justice lens.

 

A pedagogy for liberation: Dialogues on transforming education

Author(s): Shor, I. Freire, P.
Date: 1987
Publication: Greenwood Publishing Group
Citation: Shor, I., & Freire, P. (1987). A pedagogy for liberation: Dialogues on transforming education. Greenwood Publishing Group.
Section on webpage: Liberatory Pedagogy Literature
Tenets: Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches.
Annotation: (Google Books) Two world renowned educators, Paulo Freire and Ira Shor, speak passionately about the role of education in various cultural and political arenas. They demonstrate the effectiveness of dialogue in action as a practical means by which teachers and students can become active participants in the learning process. In a lively exchange, the authors illuminate the problems of the educational system in relation to those of the larger society and argue for the pressing need to transform the classroom in both Third and First World contexts. Shor and Freire illustrate the possibilities of transformation by describing their own experiences in liberating the classroom from its traditional constraints. They demonstrate how vital the teacher’s role is in empowering students to think critically about themselves and their relation, not only to the classroom, but to society. For those readers seeking a liberatory approach to education, these dialogues will be a revelation and a unique summary. For all those convinced of the need for transformation, this book shows the way.

 

‘That really hit me hard’: Moving beyond passive anti‐racism to engage with critical race literacy pedagogy

Author(s): Mosley, M.
Date: 2010
Publication: Race Ethnicity and Education
Citation: Mosley, M. (2010). ‘That really hit me hard’: Moving beyond passive anti‐racism to engage with critical race literacy pedagogy. Race Ethnicity and Education, 13(4), 449–471. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2010.488902
Section on webpage: Anti-Racist Pedagogy Literature
Tenets: Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches.
Annotation: (Abstract) This study interrogates how understandings about racism and anti‐racism are constructed through interactions with students as well as peers in preservice teacher education contexts towards a closer understanding of racial literacy as both a personal and pedagogical tool. Critical race literacy pedagogy – a subset of the approaches known as multicultural education, culturally responsive teaching, and anti‐racist teaching – is a set of tools to practice racial literacy in school settings with children, peers, colleagues, and so forth. In this article, I explore the construction of critical race literacy pedagogy for one white preservice teacher in a U.S. teacher education program through two engagements with literacy pedagogy: a reading lesson with two African American students and the discussion of a children’s literature text in a teacher education book club. Through the critical, mediated discourse analysis of these two engagements, we see that for Kelly, the process of enacting racial literacy in a reading lesson required anti‐racist discourse patterns not yet available to her; whereas in the book club, interviews, and written reflections she was able to articulate what it means to practice racial literacy, pinpoint the breakdown of her pedagogy, and develop what it means to be ‘actively’ anti‐racist as a literacy teacher. The findings of this study suggest the complexity of the roles and the variety of paths available for white teachers who desire to be anti‐racist teachers. Ultimately, the findings indicate that we do not need only to prepare teachers for identities that ‘transcend’ predictable ways of being white but to construct a more complete framework for what it means to practice racial literacy in educational contexts.

 

Anti-racism, feminism, and critical approaches to education.

Author(s): Ng, R. Staton, P. A. Scane, J.
Date: 1995
Publication: Bergin & Garvey
Citation: Ng, R., Staton, P. A., & Scane, J. (Eds.). (1995). Anti-racism, feminism, and critical approaches to education. Bergin & Garvey.
Section on webpage: Anti-Racist Pedagogy Literature
Tenets: Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches.
Annotation: (Abstract) This book argues that there has not been sufficient dialog and exchange between various forms of critical approaches to education, such as multicultural and antiracist education, feminist pedagogy, and critical pedagogy. Contributors from the United States and Canada address issues relevant to ethnic and minority groups in light of feminist and critical pedagogical theory in the following discussions: (1) “Multicultural Education, Anti-Racist Education, and Critical Pedagogy: Reflections on Everyday Practice” (Goli Rezai-Rashti); (2) “Multicultural Policy Discourses on Racial Inequality in American Education” (Cameron McCarthy); (3) “Multicultural and Anti-Racist Teacher Education: A Comparison of Canadian and British Experiences in the 1970s and 1980s” (Jon Young); (4) “Warrior as Pedagogue, Pedagogue as Warrior: Reflections on Aboriginal Anti-Racist Pedagogy” (Robert Regnier); (5) “Connecting Racism and Sexism: The Dilemma of Working with Minority Female Students” (Goli Rezai-Rashti); (6) “Aboriginal Teachers as Organic Intellectuals: (Rick Hesch); and (7) “Teaching against the Grain: Contradictions and Possibilities” (Roxana Ng).

 

Pedagogies of strategic empathy: Navigating through the emotional complexities of anti-racism in higher education

Author(s): Zembylas, M.
Date: 2012
Publication: Teaching in Higher Education
Citation: Zembylas, M. (2012). Pedagogies of strategic empathy: Navigating through the emotional complexities of anti-racism in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education, 17(2), 113–125.
Section on webpage: Anti-Racist Pedagogy Literature
Tenets: Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches.
Annotation: (Abstract) This paper constructs an argument about the emotionally complicated and compromised learning spaces of teaching about anti-racism in higher education. These are spaces steeped in complex structures of feeling that evoke strong and often discomforting emotions on the part of both teachers and students. In particular, the author theorizes the notion of strategic empathy in the context of students’ emotional resistance toward anti-racist work; he examines how strategic empathy can function as a valuable pedagogical tool that opens up affective spaces which might eventually disrupt the emotional roots of troubled knowledge – an admittedly long and difficult task. Undermining the emotional roots of troubled knowledge through strategic empathy ultimately aims at helping students integrate their troubled views into anti-racist and socially just perspectives.

 

Teaching and the experience of disability: The pedagogy of Ed Roberts

Author(s): Danforth, S.
Date: 2020
Publication: Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
Citation: Danforth, S. (2020). Teaching and the experience of disability: The pedagogy of Ed Roberts. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(5), 464–488. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i5.705
Section on webpage: Disability Pedagogy Literature
Tenets: Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches.
Annotation: (Abstract) Ed Roberts was a renowned activist considered to be one of the founding leaders of the American disability rights movement. Although he engaged in numerous political strategies, his main form of activism was teaching in his prolific public speaking career across the United States and around the world. The content and methods of his pedagogy were crafted from his own personal experiences as a disabled man. His teaching featured autobiographic selections from his own life in which he fought and defeated forces of oppression and discrimination. This article examines Roberts’ disability rights teaching in relation to the experiential sources, political content, and teaching techniques.

 

Disability studies pedagogy, usability and universal design

Author(s): Dolmage, J.
Date: 2005
Publication: Disability Studies Quarterly
Citation: Dolmage, J. (2005). Disability studies pedagogy, usability and universal design. Disability Studies Quarterly, 25(4). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v25i4.627
Section on webpage: Disability Pedagogy Literature
Tenets: Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches.
Annotation: Jay Dolmage relates his experiences and suggestions in regards to the use of “universal design” in three undergraduate-level classes taught at Miami University of Ohio in fall 2024. This article gives the reader a basic insight into Universal Design for Learning (UDL), its history and significance, and its shortcomings in student-instructor interaction, dynamicism, and accessibility. Dolmage introduces usability and a new hybrid pedagogy that unites usability and universal design as a framework that reach a broad range of users and allow the designer and user to collaborate. Suggestions for application in the classroom are given.

 

Critical pedagogy and disability: Considerations for music education

Author(s): Draper, E.
Date: 2022
Publication: Visions of Research in Music Education
Citation: Draper, E. (2022). Critical pedagogy and disability: Considerations for music education. Visions of Research in Music Education, 40(1). https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/vrme/vol40/iss1/10
Section on webpage: Disability Pedagogy Literature
Tenets: Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches.
Annotation: (Abstract) Developed by Brazilian Paulo Freire to teach economically disadvantaged adults to read, critical peda- gogy has since inspired others to adapt the model to other subject areas. In the area of music education, Frank Abrahams created the Critical Pedagogy for Music Education (CPME) model and has written about the use of CPME in teacher preparation programs. Scholars in disability studies have also been inspired by critical pedagogy, writing about disability pedagogy. Notably, people with disabilities have historically been omitted from models of critical pedagogy. This article discusses the intersections of critical pedagogy, music education, and disability, and makes recommendations to music education scholars on including students with disabilities in future models.

 

Disability studies pedagogy: Engaging dissonance and meaning making.

Author(s): Hulgin, K. O’Connor, S. Fitch, E. F. Gutsell, M.
Date: 2011
Publication: Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal
Citation: Hulgin, K., O’Connor, S., Fitch, E. F., & Gutsell, M. (2011). Disability studies pedagogy: Engaging dissonance and meaning making. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 7(3 & 4). https://www.rdsjournal.org
Section on webpage: Disability Pedagogy Literature
Tenets: Considering alternative histories and narratives. Examining how gender, intersecting with other social categories, structures our lives, learning, and knowledge production, access to resources and information. Honoring diversity and lived experiences through intersectional approaches.
Annotation: (Abstract) Student responses to disability studies pedagogy are influenced by the context in which they learn. This study examined student responses in two disability studies initiatives: one within a teacher preparation program that included American Indian students, the other within a stand alone, interdisciplinary course taken primarily by Americans of European descent. Course dialogue and students’ written assignments were used to identify and categorize their responses. While some students readily engaged in critique of disability as culturally constructed, experiences of significant resistance related to positivist filters, adherence to individualism, and defense of identity-related norms. These responses are discussed as considerations for more effective pedagogy in this relatively new field.